Archives - 04 May 2017, Thursday

National home improvement retailer Lowe’s has expanded its everyday military discount program to include all honorably discharged veterans, as of May. The chain also has expanded the 10 percent discount to Lowe's online shopping, which will include free parcel shipping. It will provid...

Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of six works of narrative military history, including The Guns at Last Light, The Day of Battle, An Army at Dawn, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers, and Crusade. He also was the lead essayist in Where Valor Rests: Arlington National...

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WASHINGTON — House lawmakers passed a controversial health care overhaul on Thursday without a clear answer on what the changes could mean for veterans. Republicans maintain that the new law won’t affect any veterans’ access to health care and related tax credits. But Democrats insist...

WASHINGTON — The two American investigators felt a sense of foreboding that Sunday as they headed to an emergency meeting with their boss on the Iraqi air base. But they didn't expect to be surrounded by armed guards, disarmed, detained against their will — and fired without explanati...

WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says his department is seeking to close perhaps more than 1,100 VA facilities nationwide as it develops plans to allow more veterans to receive medical care in the private sector. At a House hearing Wednesday, Shulkin said the VA h...

TEL AVIV – “There’s a part of Israel in every F-35 that’s ever been built,” a Lockheed Martin senior executive told a gathering of air power professionals here Thursday. Speaking at an annual event of Israel Defense and the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies, retired...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will send a proposal to the White House as early as next week laying out America's long-term presence in Afghanistan, senior defense officials said Thursday. The plan will likely include a request for more U.S. troops. U.S. military officials have said they n...

It's one of the lesser-known — but also one of the most important — weapons in the fight against the Islamic State: The EC-130H Compass Call, a suite of complex communication-jamming systems, stuffed into aging cargo planes that date back to the Vietnam War. But over the next dozen ye...

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BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is in talks with the Trump administration to keep American troops in Iraq after the fight against the Islamic State group in the country is concluded, according to a U.S. official and an official from the Iraqi government. Both officials underl...

WASHINGTON — The head of U.S. Special Operations Command said his troops are highly skilled, but they can’t do everything. “We are not a panacea,” said Gen. Raymond Thomas III in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday. “We are not the ultimate solution to every ...

The Army has a whole generation of officers who are used to sending troops out on a mission in the morning and returning for a shower and a Whopper at the forward operating base in the evening, but those days will soon be over, the Army's chief of staff said Thursday. Future wars, in ...

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NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Va. — The Navy has the dropped espionage charges against Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lin, part of a plea bargain agreement with the government that will result in the accused spy pleading guilty to a slate of lesser charges. Lin, who initially faced more than 30 years in t...

Closely following its unconventional warfare theory, Russian waged total war, utilizing a variety of soft instruments to shape the operational environment long before 2014 and cultivating the popular support necessary to sustain such an intervention. First, it worked by, with, and thr...

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The Marine Corps is not releasing either of the drill instructors' names, said Capt. Matthew Finnerty, a spokesman for the San Diego recruit depot. The drill instructor involved with the shower incidents is still on active-duty but no longer trains recruits; while the drill instructor...

NEW DELHI — In a departure from an earlier policy of awarding big-ticket defense programs to state-owned companies on a nomination basis, the Indian Ministry of Defence has decided to source four landing platform docks from private defense companies. "MoD will shortly invite revised c...

Lin was also discovered with notes he took while studying for qualifications that were classified and stored in a notebook at his apartment. When it came to lying on his leave chits, Lin told the judge he simply wanted to skip the administrative burdens that go along with filing an ou...

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World War II veteran John Kuhn lost his two Bronze Star medals and several ribbons from his service in the Navy after some thieves broke into his home while he was in the hospital for a few months, according to WHNT 19 News . “Somebody broke into the house and they took a lot of stuff...

The US Air Force (USAF) has sent an RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to Yokota Air Base, Japan, for a five-month deployment. Forming a part of the 69th Reconnaissance Group, Detachment 1, the aircraft has been deployed to provide near real-time aerial imagery reconnaissa...

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WARSAW, Poland — The U.S. military in Europe says a tactical headquarters and 100 troops have relocated to Poland from Germany to enhance the command of U.S. rotational forces recently deployed to the region. Some 6,000 U.S. have deployed this year to the region, which is nervous over...

In the nine months the 101st Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team was deployed to Iraq, the unit watched the mission on the ground transform. “In early 2016, the posture of our force, the authority granted to our units, the capabilities of Iraqi security forces, and the effecti...

Boxall said in 2014 the Navy discounted foreign frigate designs due to none of them exactly meeting its requirements, and the need to quickly begin work on a frigate that would quell LCS detractors. Today, Boxall said there still doesn’t appear to be any other small surface combatant ...

China recently launched its first indigenous aircraft carrier. Construction of the 70,000 tonne Type 001A carrier which may be named Shandong started in 2013 and it is likely to be commissioned in 2020. It will be China’s second carrier after it commissioned a modified Ukrainian Kuzne...

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London, 4 May - Last month, Iranian officials announced that Iran's defense budget increased by 145 percent under President Hassan Rouhani, and the military is moving forward with massive restructuring to make it "a forward moving force," according to regional reports. This is very co...

It's a women's army, men are privileged to catch bullets in it. Private Michael Stanner is continuously reminded of that fact but he refuses to give up. He will fight for victory and the chance to become something more. That is, if he can avoid getting killed on New Calcutta. Members ...

The National Day of Prayer was established for broad representation from all religions with a clear focus on praying for the nation. The National Day of Prayer is an annual observance which takes place on the first Thursday in May. The National Day of Prayer was not designed for polit...